9:11 PM,
Jan. 16, 2014

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Last year, Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, likened high-fence hunting preserves to dog fighting and called them a "slaughterhouse without a roof."

Now he says he's going to allow legislation to be introduced that could expand the practice in Indiana.

Long told The Indianapolis Star in an emailed statement that he will allow Sen. Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury, to introduce legislation that would legalize the hunting of farm-raised deer and elk behind fences, which the state's Department of Natural Resources opposes. ...